Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1993

[Clive42]

Thread No.6 - Hip Hop albums with the best production in your opinion from 1993

Well, unsurprisingly, Dr Dre's 'The Chronic' won by a landslide, taking more than 3/4 of the votes with Mecca & the soul brother coming 2nd.

For the posters bringing up the Dr Dre/west coast albums always winning, 1993 is the year which you could label as the beginning of the East Coast Renaissance. So despite a certain 'huge' west coast album, produced by a certain producer (who has seen great success in this thread series), releasing that year, an east coast album could have a chance of winning this thread

Leaderboards so far:
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1988 - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (2nd)
EPMD - Strictly Business / Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Joint 3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1989 - The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Too Short - Life Is...Too Short (2nd)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1990 - Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (2nd)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1991 - N.W.A - Nikkaz4Life
DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name (2nd)
Ice Cube - Death Certificate (3rd)
Best produced Hip Hop Album - 1992 - Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother (2nd)
Redman - Whut? Thee Album / The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (Joint 3rd)

NOTES

• Poll will be out of 15 choices
• Only one choice
• Will close after 7 days
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• Winning album will be displayed in leaderboards of subsequent thread/year

Albums that I've heard are in bold

Discussion on production is VERY welcomed

1. Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

2. 2Pac - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...

3. Geto Boys - Till Death Do Us Part

4. Onyx - Bacdafucup

5. Guru - Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1

6. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday

7. Scarface - The World Is Yours

8. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate

9. KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap

10. Souls of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity

11. Black Moon - Enta da Stage

12. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Spoiler

13. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

14. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

15. Ice Cube - Lethal Injection

Other Albums

Heavy D & the Boyz - Blue Funk
King T - Tha Triflin' Album
Brand Nubian - In God We Trust
Kam - Neva Again
Ice-T - Home Invasion
Monie Love - In a Word or 2
Lords of the Underground - Here Come the Lords
Mobb Deep - Juvenile Hell
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
Run-D.M.C. - Down with the King
The Roots - Organix
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Faces of Death
Jungle Brothers - J Beez wit the Remedy
Biz Markie - All Samples Cleared!
MC Lyte - Ain't No Other
Mac Mall - Illegal Business?
Fat Joe - Represent
Kris Kross - Da Bomb
Ultramagnetic MCs - The Four Horsemen
Poor Righteous Teachers - Black Business
Masta Ace Incorporated - SlaughtaHouse
Spice 1 - 187 He Wrote
Digital Underground - The Body-Hat Syndrome
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Code Red
Salt-n-Pepa - Very Necessary
Leaders of the New School - T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye)
LL Cool J - 14 Shots to the Dome
Big Daddy Kane - Looks Like a Job For...
8Ball & MJG - Comin' Out Hard
Eazy-E - It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa (EP)
Erick Sermon - No Pressure
Shaquille O'Neal - Shaq Diesel
Too Short - Get in Where You Fit In
E-40 - Federal
Das EFX - Straight Up Sewaside
MC Ren - Shock of the Hour
Queen Latifah - Black Reign
Del the Funky Homosapien - No Need for Alarm
Us3 - Hand on the Torch
K-Rino - Stories From the Black Book
Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over
Intelligent Hoodlum - Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum
Above the Law - Black Mafia Life
Ant Banks - Sittin' on Somethin' Phat
Akinyele - Vagina Diner
JT the Bigga Figga - Playaz n the Game
Suprême NTM - 1993... J'appuie sur la gâchette
Mac Dre - Young Black Brotha: The AlbumThe Coup - Kill My Landlord
IAM - Ombre est lumière
Naughty by Nature - 19 Naughty III
Domino - Domino

Of the 5 albums from the list ive heard, im gonna go with Enta da Stage. Not every beat on the album i like (like actually almost half the the beats on the album) and find the production on the later BCC album 'Dah Shinin' to be be a lot better. But the sound still remains consistent and has that New York 90s hardcore sound that ive grown to love. Plus certain beats on the album are just amazing, especially 'How Many MC's' and 'shyt iz Real'.

I would probably put Doggystyle second with 'Lodi Dodi', 'Gin and Juice' and Gz Up, Hoes Down' being my favourite beats

Enter the wu tang album was meant to be unprecendented when it came out, both production and persona wise. The production took a while to grow on me though, mostly cos of some tracks starting with sick drums and then dropping with some weird piano loops, and just personally prefer RZA's production on the later wu albums. But there are some really good beats on there anyways with 'Can it be all so simple', both 7th Chamber's and 'Wu tang clan aint nothing to fukk with' being my favourite beats.

 

[Newportbox]

The soundscape of 36 Chambers is like nothing Hip Hop had ever heard before. A true leap forward in the progression of the culture.
93' had a ton of banging albums, but 36 it has to be.

 

[Newportbox]

Double post. My fault

 

[DaveyDave]

Very close IMO between 36 Chambers and Doggystyle but I had to go with Snoop.

 

[Clive42]

The soundscape of 36 Chambers is like nothing Hip Hop had ever heard before. A true leap forward in the progression of the culture.
93' had a ton of banging albums, but 36 it has to be.

Yh i definetly began to appreciate it more over the years and do like the production now. Never ever minded the dusty, low quality sound to it either

I remember reading somewhere on the internet that RZA appareantly stole his production equipment

 

[DaveyDave]

Yh i definetly began to appreciate it more over the years and do like the production now. Never ever minded the dusty, low quality sound to it either

I remember reading somewhere on the internet that RZA appareantly stole his production equipment

in the first Wu Manual, i'm pretty sure he says he "borrowed" some equipment off someone else in the hood and either never gave it back or gave it back like 10 years later lol

 

[Xtz23]

Doggystyle and 36 chambers by far after that enta da stage

 

[Clive42]

in the first Wu Manual, i'm pretty sure he says he "borrowed" some equipment off someone else in the hood and either never gave it back or gave it back like 10 years later lol

Oh ok. It was probably a 'rumor' thread i read it from. Lool made me think of this

 

[Bugsmoran]

Above The Law - Black Mafia Life should be on the voting list

 

[nahnah]

It's between 36 Chambers and Amazing Spider-man for me. Imma go 36 Chambers

 

[Bugsmoran]

I expect Snoop or Wu to win but I think Cypress Hill - Black Sunday was the best produced album that year

Dj Muggs went in

 

[Travellin' Man]

I expect Snoop or Wu to win but I think Cypress Hill - Black Sunday was the best produced album that year

Dj Muggs went in

Yo! I will never forget the 1st time I heard this album. My sister had the tape and I remember just staring at the cover of the tape cover and putting the tape into the boom box and just being in awe of the sound of the music.

The album has held up very well too.

Muggs and Cypress Hill as a group don't get enough props these days.

 

[Bugsmoran]

Yo! I will never forget the 1st time I heard this album. My sister had the tape and I remember just staring at the cover of the tape cover and putting the tape into the boom box and just being in awe of the sound of the music.

The album has held up very well too.

Muggs and Cypress Hill as a group don't get enough props these days.

The first time I played the Black Sunday tape I was riding in somebody's car. I just bought the tape from the mall...we was on our way back and it was raining really hard outside



When this song came on while it was raining I was like

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Doggystyle and 36 chambers by far after that enta da stage

My thoughts exactly.

I don't know how much this plays into it, but I'm tempted to say that 36 Chambers has better production, but Doggystyle has better sound quality. Apparently when Jimmy Iovine met Dr. Dre and Dre played The Chronic for him, Jimmy asked Dre who his engineer was, and Dre said "I recorded all of this myself. I don't have an engineer." And Jimmy was blown away. But then again there's something gritty about RZA's imperfect mix on 36 Chambers that makes me dig it more. I mean I'm an east coast head more than a G-Funk head, so I'm going with 36 Chambers. But if anyone puts Doggystyle over 36 Chambers I wouldn't argue.

 

[Travellin' Man]

The first time I played the Black Sunday tape I was riding in somebody's car. I just bought the tape from the mall...we was on our way back and it was raining really hard outside



When this song came on while it was raining I was like

Wow, damn.

I just remember seeing the tape on my sister's desk, picking it up and then going over to her boom box/stereo player and putting that shyt in and looking at the tape cover. I was like, "what is this?!"

The sound of the music and B-Real's distinct voice drew me right in. Of course I had heard "Insane in the Brain" but this was the 1st time I was hearing them outside of that single.